Abstract

ALMUINA GUEMES, Marcia; RODRIGUEZ ALVAREZ, Leonel; VERA ESTEVEZ, Aymee  and  ALONSO CHIL, Oscar. Influencia del sexo femenino y la actividad física en la intoxicación digitálica. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 2001, vol.17, n.2, pp. 133-136. ISSN 1561-3038.

A prospective and descriptive analytic study of a randomized sample of 617 patients treated with digoxin in 4 polyclinics of the municipality of Arroyo Naranjo was conducted in 1999. Every patient was surveyed, the medical histories were reviewed and an index of prognosis of digitalis poisoing (DI) was made. A predominace of females (54,4 %) was observed in the studied sample. 5,3 % of the women had DI, whereas only 1,8 % of the 45,6 % of males included in the sample had DI. 68,5 % of the sample were sedentary and of them 4,7 % had DI. 1,5 % of the nonsedentary had DI, a statistically significant difference when it was compared with the sedentary group (p < 0.05). The incidence of DI was 3,2 %. It was concluded that the variables female sex and physical activity are related with this phenomenon.

Keywords : DIGOXIN [/adverse effects]; DIGOXIN [/poisoning]; WOMEN; RISK FACTORS..

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